Norquist: Speed Up Growth, Not Taxes

House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP lawmakers recently have hinted at possible willingness to raise tax revenues, as part of a broader solution to the looming fiscal cliff.

But at the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, the no-new-taxes flame continues to burn bright. In a batch of TV interviews on Monday morning, ATR President Grover Norquist said that tax increases are not what Mr. Boehner is suggesting, and are not what the 2012 election outcome mandated.

Mr. Boehner “is in favor of more revenue from economic growth,” Mr. Norquist said on CBS This Morning. “I certainly agree with him on that.”…

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